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Global Goods, Silver And Market Integration: Consumption Of Wine, Silk And Porcelain Through The Grill Company Via Macao-Canton And Marseille-Seville Trade Nodes, 18th Century

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New global history studies have provided theoretical models related to different paths of economic growth and consumer behaviour between East Asia (mainly China and Japan) and Europe during the period of the first industrialisation. However, more research challenging the Eurocentric views of the origins of globalisation is needed. In this article, I examine the exchanges of Chinese silks and porcelains and European wines and liquors for American silver through the Swedish Grill Company. This company had extensive business activities in Canton and Macao establishing strategic links and intermediation with other relevant companies from China, Manila, Seville and Marseille. On the global level, such exchanges played a crucial role for the accumulation of American silver in China during the Qing dynasty, and the outflows of Chinese goods to the Americas and Europe fostered market integration and globalisation that occurred earlier than 1820.

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  • Pérez-Garcia, Manuel, 2020. "Global Goods, Silver And Market Integration: Consumption Of Wine, Silk And Porcelain Through The Grill Company Via Macao-Canton And Marseille-Seville Trade Nodes, 18th Century," Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 38(3), pages 449-484, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:reveco:v:38:y:2020:i:3:p:449-484_3
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